Chinese Zodiac Use Of Metaphor Study

Zodiac culture is rooted in the Chinese civilization, but also spread to other countries,nations and regions. Although the, different countries choose different ethnic groups andarrangement of the zodiac animals vary, it is undeniable that the Han ethnic zodiac played animportant role to Chinese culture heritage. Not only in the Chinese culture it has a very importantposition, but also impacts the development of world culture. The Chinese zodiac animal andhuman activities are close, the Han ethnic heritage and development are closely related to thezodiac animals. People discovered that there are some similarities between the zodiac animal inappearance, habits and other aspects of human society which caused people to think about thesimilarities between them which belong to the zodiac animals to express human activity.Classify these zodiacs Sayings.Analysis the words including the typical animal morphemeword metaphor, the structure and semantic features of the metaphor, at last show the culturalconnotations of the zodiac animal under cultural background. We deeply appreciate each zodiachas its own name and image characteristics, and the zodiac animals are close to the Chinesepeople’s lives.The full text is divided into four chapters. An introduction text is before and a conclusion isin the text.The introduction part is to understand the significance and research value of the subject.And introduce the research statues of zodiacs Sayings to clear innovation of this article.The first chapter is divided into two parts; the first part is to introduce the zodiac culture ofthe Chinese to define the scope of the study. The second part of the article shows the mechanismof metaphor interpretation to determine the theoretical basis of this paper.The second chapter shows the use of metaphors in the Chinese zodiacs sayings. Themetaphor of the zodiacs Sayings is divided into orientation metaphor, physical metaphor, andstructure metaphor depending on the origin domain. Then make a detail analysis of the semanticsof the metaphor of the zodiacs Sayings characteristics.Chapter III of this paper focuses on interpretation of the zodiacs Sayings metaphor andshows the specific use of the words with synthetic theory of cognitive linguistics, semantics andthe cognitive theory of context to analysis the formation mechanism of the zodiacs Sayings.Then analysis them under cognitive context to discusses the function of metaphor in theformation mechanism of the zodiacs Sayings.Chapter four analysis zodiacs sayings from the cultural perspective to know the impact ofthe research culture of the zodiacs sayings. Zodiacs Sayings is further subdivided into preference type, grown tired of the type, awe-type by association and the angle of analysis in order to tapthe cognitive metaphor theory interpretation of the zodiacs Sayings of metaphor.Zodiacs Sayings occupy a large proportion in the Chinese language and vocabulary, thestudy of zodiac animal Sayings metaphor, can create a new understanding of the cognitivestructure of the zodiacs Sayings, you can also learn more about the way of thinking of theChinese culture.